An Open Letter to Canon
There’s a reason that actual movies cost millions of dollars to make.
Doug Bayne also known as Safetyhammer, unleashes a hilarious rant about Canon DSLRs. This is classic fabulousness. … Continue Reading
There’s a reason that actual movies cost millions of dollars to make.
Doug Bayne also known as Safetyhammer, unleashes a hilarious rant about Canon DSLRs. This is classic fabulousness. … Continue Reading
Nikon has released its newest camera body, the D5100. It’s small, light, cheap, and aimed squarely at keen amateurs.
It’s also, I think, a direct pitch at family filmmakers who want to experiment with DSLR filmmaking but don’t want to splash out a lot of money on kit.
Wired magazine has caught up with the changes sweeping filmmaking, with a short piece on some DSLR successes of the last couple of years.
The Sundance Festival awards have been announced, and they are big news for the HDSLR filmmaking community.
There are some things that I feel I just can’t change. The amount of leg room on my flight, technology becoming out dated right after I buy it, and never being able to find the perfect backpack for my camera gear.
When it comes to transporting camera gear, each situation seems to require something different. I have packs for the city, the backcountry, overnight trips and dry-bags for the ocean and jungle. For travel I have pelican cases, carry on cases and shipping cases.
In a last-ditch effort to find something that would work everywhere, my brother and I cannibalized our old packs to try making something that would work. Something with internal support, that doesn’t have to be taken off every time you need to get into it, is waterproof and protects gear from a beating. Something that felt like a hiking pack, but functioned like a camera pack.
I ended up with a Pelican case bolted on a pack frame, he ended up with something I can’t really explain.
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Since the earlier post detailing the HDSLR rig we were using for the ABC Family commercials, my team has done several more tv commercials and have extensively refined the kit. The last setup was highly functional but a bit of a Frankenstein monster.
The new rig is more compact, cleaner and more functional, especially from the standpoint of pulling focus — which is kind of a big deal. You can see the new rig in the slideshow below. The major changes outlined underneath.
